Max Tegmark

I don't think AlphaZero has any fear of being turned off because it doesn't understand the concept of it even.

And similarly, consciousness, I mean, you can certainly imagine...

very simple kind of experience if certain plants have any kind of experience I don't think they're very afraid of dying there's nothing they can do about it anyway so there wasn't much value but more seriously I think if you ask not just about being conscious but maybe having what you would we might call an exciting life where you feel passion and really appreciate the

things, maybe there perhaps it does help having that backdrop that, hey, it's finite.

Let's make the most of this.

Let's live to the fullest.

If you knew you were going to just live forever, do you think you would change your

Well, the good news I have for you then is based on what we understand about cosmology, everything in our universe is ultimately probably finite.

Yeah, we could have a big chill or a big crunch or a big rip or the big snap or death bubbles.

All of them are more than a billion years away.

So we certainly have vastly more time than our ancestors thought.

But they're still pretty hard to squeeze in an infinite number of compute cycles, even though there are some loopholes that just might be possible.

But I think some people like to say that you should live as if

You're going to die in five years or so, and that's sort of optimal.

Maybe it's a good assumption.

We should build our civilization as if it's all finite to be on the safe side.

Consciousness does not come into this definition.

So I think of intelligence as a spectrum.

There are very many different kinds of goals you can have.

You can have a goal to be a good chess player, a good goal player, a good car driver, a good investor, a good poet, etc.